The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945–2005 [electronic resource] /
Dorney, K.author.
An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-247) and index.
Introduction -- Language, Communication and Ideology -- Fetishising Communication on Stage -- 1945-1955: The 'Dissociation of Sensibility' and 'the Jewelled Epigram' -- 1956-1964: Moribund and Vital; Demotic and Epic -- 1964-1975: Revolution On and Off Stage -- 1976-1989: Staging the Nation -- 1990-2000: Talk is Cheap -- Coda: Likelike-ese Since 2000 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period.
British literature.
Theater.
Communication.
Linguistics.
Theater—History.
Sociolinguistics.
British and Irish Literature.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Communication Studies.
Linguistics, general.
Theatre History.
Sociolinguistics.